tion, the operator's SOUL is the center of attraction. The subject's attention is identical with the operator's. By the mere exercise of fancy, without the least mandate of will, the operator may image his thoughts upon the subject's brain. He may cause him to drink wine from a glass of pure water; to hear the roaring of cannon and clashing of weapons on the battle-field; to feel the strength of a giant; to catch fish in an imaginary stream on the carpet at his feet; to weep the tears of sorrow at sufferings purely fictitious; to pray for forgiveness at the throne of an implacable potentate; and lastly, to forget his own individuality, and take on the feelings and exhibit the striking characteristics of the operator, or of any one whom the operator has the intellectual power clearly to shadow forth in the positive odyllic light of his own mind. This psychological law lies at the bottom of all that class of so-called "spiritual phenomena," wherein, to the observer, it seems that the spirit or mind of the medium has vacated its temple in order to give a foreign intelligence an opportunity of manifestation.

Fig. 3.

One step further on in this magnetic career will be followed by the complete blending of the vital and mental spheres, (as illustrated by figure No. 3,) in which case are exhibited all those mysterious and glorious phenomena termed "Somnambulism," "clairvoyance," "spirit seeing," &c. The extent of man's capacity in this peculiar state is not easily measured. The subject is no longer psychological or sympathetic.

The condition is most favorable to very high perceptions of natural truths. The clairvoyant is capable of medical examina

tions; also, as a "sensitive," of testing the positive and nega tive qualities and polarities of crystals, metals, medicines, waters, bodies, &c. Some persons there are who seem to be born with the last-named gift, and yet without the first symptoms of natural clairvoyance. Reichenbach terms such persons "sensitives," because they are clear-feelers rather than clearseers, or clairvoyants. The German philosopher says: "Suppose, now, that there were a vein of lead, copper ore, or red silver ore, not far below the surface, as they are often found; if a high sensitive were to walk over them, with attention, he would feel them and be able to tell their position. Stone-coal exercises an odic influence, different from that of sandstone and slate, in which it is found. If the sensitive has paid attention, beforehand, to the sensations which coal causes, he will readily recognize them when he approaches a vein of coal. Non-sensitive men will not be able to feel anything, but the high sensitive will be able to say with certainty, Here or there, this or that mineral may be found in the earth; and, by digging, proof will be found of the correctness of the assertion, which appears so much the more wonderful from the fact that the treasure finder can give no satisfactory explanation of the manner in which he made his discoveries. The marvel is now exposed: it is a purely physical effect of the odic force on the human nerves; it works like a dark sense, of which we can give no explanation; and a multitude of instinctive actions among brutes will find their explanations in the same way. And now you have the whole secret of the divining-rod; not of the rod in its literal sense, and of its rising, falling, and turning; these were only the hocus-pocus for the inquisitive crowd, who would not be satisfied until they could see something.

"You perceive from this how great the practical importance of sensitiveness, and what a career it is destined to have. These

sensitives and somnambulists will soon be sought and counted as the benefactors of their neighborhoods and countries. To mining, this discovery promises an extraordinary development, and this not only by the discovery of new beds of ore, but also for the running of their shafts underground, when the stratum eludes the miner." We must here express our conviction, that the pursuit of subterranean knowledge will not promote the development or happiness of the "sensitive," or clairvoyant, who so employs his spiritual power.

In order to exhibit the full course of the magnetic experiment, we introduce the ultimate state, called the Superior Condition The dotted oval lines, which illustrate the magnetic rapport of the operator and subject, show (see figure No. 4) that the twain are related only through the vita powers and processes. The brain is now completely emancipated from the pre-existing magnetic thraldom, and consequently the mind of the clairvoyant is independent of all surrounding circumstances. Once for all, let us remark, that the magnetic process will not guarantee to every person these succeeding phenomena, any more than going through college will insure to every scholar the development of a Shakspeare, a Bacon, or a Plato. Favorable proclivities and organic qualifications precede the production of the mental phenomena. Neither will it be possible for the magnetic sleep to succeed the passes in every case; all these effects follow in a train of favorable causes and predispositions, or they do not at all appear. And yet, in justice to the endowments of our

Fig. 4.

common humanity, it is but simple truth to say that there exist in every person, of every nation, the germs and faculties of all the grandest powers ever exhibited by any human mind. Their development and fruition are certain in the march of Time through the ages.

MAGNETISM AS A MEDICINE. Having briefly sketched the action and mental effects of the magnetic principles, it is now expedient to conclude our remarks in behalf of the sick and suffering. The human body, in its normal and healthy condition, is endowed with every requisite power. But by ignorant and negligent treatment, the natural vital forces lose their just equilibrium, and the effects and consequences are soon visible in material prostrations, in severe pains, or in silent and insensible decomposition. What physicians term "nervous influence" is really nothing but the magnetic and electric life of the interior SOUL. Animals, including men, have these magnetic endowments; and the principles of vital action, in both the human and animal kingdoms, are exactly and universally identical. A loss of vital action is nothing but a loss of balance between inherent forces, which are positive and negative, or magnetic and electrical. And yet we do not hold that the currents generated by the metallic or mineral battery can ever be made to act as a substitute, because the principles of SOUL-life are as much more fine than atmospheric electricity, as the latter is finer and more delicate than the gross and turbulent water of our lakes.

Therefore we recommend the judicious use of human magnetism in nearly all cases of disease-especially the use of your own magnetic energy on different parts of your own body! Your left side can treat your right side; your right side can magnetize your left side; your vital centers can give the surfaces a thorough magnetic sweating; your hands will do the

bidding of your brain; and your brain will act obediently to the commands of a well-ordered judgment. "Ah!" you despair. ingly exclaim, "I've tried the experiment, and cannot succeed.": We reply: "You do not succeed for the same reason that a boy cannot swim, or skate, or accomplish anything correctly, until the art thereof is fully and systematically acquired." We prescribe different remedies merely as palliatives and aids to your final redemption from disease, and from the fear of death, but the radical remedy is still within your own individual organization.

The therapeutic influence of magnetism may be exerted in various ways, differing in every case with the temperament and the nature of the disease, and for this reason we do not attempt, in this chapter, to specify methods. It should, however, be borne in mind, that to practice magnetism successfully, (as the distinguished M. De Puysegur said,) "You must have an active WILL to do good, a firm faith in your power, and an active confidence in employing it." Magnetism is a useful, a spiritualizing, and a sublime agent of energy and health. It is the all-pervading sympathy which connects us with the absolute condition and sufferings of our fellow men. Owing to the delicacy and sublime uses of the magnetic power, it is susceptible of remarkable mis-applications, much to the annoyance, perhaps injury, of both the operator and subject. Prof. William Gregory, late of the University at Edinburg, said: "I have been informed, on perfectly good authority, of the case of a lady, highly susceptible to the magnetic influence, who could never be magnetized if a certain person were present; and I know another lady, who is easily and pleasantly magnetized by one person, while the magnetic influence of a third individual is to her insupportable."

The same excellent authority says: "Another class of fail